The HistoryMakers video oral history with Frank Ski.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 36 min., 30 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11318318
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Frank Ski
Frank Ski
Other authors / contributors:Ski, Frank, 1964- interviewee.
Gines, Denise, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Denise Gines, interviewer.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2008 February 26.
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Summary:Radio host Frank Ski was born Frank Rodriguez on May 9, 1964. After graduating from high school, Ski moved to Baltimore, Maryland. He attended the University of District of Columbia, where he worked as a part-time disc jockey. In 1985, Ski was offered a position as an evening shift disc jockey with V-103, then-called WEBB, and eventually became the co-host for the number one rated morning show, The Frank and Jean Morning Show. In the early 1990s, Ski began remixing songs for Luke Skywalker Records, including the critically acclaimed Doo Doo Brown in 1991. In 1998, he was hired by Atlanta radio station WVEE as its morning show host, together with comedienne Wanda Smith. Ski went on to found the Frank Ski Kids Foundation in 2000, a foundation providing assistance to low income youth and agencies serving youth in order to expand opportunities for educational, athletic and cultural learning.